Sep/Oct 2003

WEB SERVICES AND .NET

When it comes to the questions swirling around Web Services and .NET, many MultiValue people are at a loss.While the rest of the IT industry is trying to understand the big picture too, find out, from a MultiValue perspective, how well this industry's solid software fits in with the new model and what the bottom line really is on .NET and MultiValue. BY TONY GRAVAGNO

The value of MultiValue has transcended borders, languages, and cultures for decades.As Spectrum's conference returns to the U.K. and Australia, Spectrum magazine checks in with many of the companies who are actively spreading the MultiValue gospel around the world.

HARVESTING YOUR OWN PROJECT

Most projects (especially bad ones) are audited formally or informally.A good audit provides you with information you can use, lets you get a jump on things that are going wrong before they do, and allows you to take credit for all those projects where you did everything right. BY STEVE VANARSDALE

PDA USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES: PALM OS, PART 2

Designing programs for PDAs? This issue, the author delves into user interface guidelines specific to the Palm OS program. BY NATHAN RECTOR

After Nestle Waters North America, the largest bottled water supplier in the U.S., implemented Total Computing Solutions' TotaLink credit card processing product, it increased its credit card transactions by 100 percent in the span of one year while eliminating a time-consuming manual data-entry system.

WEBONOMICS 101: INTRODUCTION TO LDAP

Get a handle on LDAP (the "Lightweight" Directory Access Protocol), a way to set up a global directory for your company. BY MELVIN SORIANO

MULTIVALUE DOES ADOBE PDF, WITH STYLE AND GRACE

The Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. Find out about the wide range of things you can do with Multi- Value and Adobe now that Adobe has opened up the format and provided developers with plenty of rich tools to build custom solutions. BY JOHN WALSH

REVELATION TECH TIPS: OPENINSIGHT AND DATABASES

Showcasing its versatility, there is a breadth of techniques available for enabling OpenInsight to interact with many different data sources, whether they are other MultiValue products, ODBC or ASCII data sources, data from the Web or XML data. BY ROBERT CARTEN

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: WHAT PRICE WILL YOU PAY TO GET SPAM OUT OF YOUR LIFE?

Lawmakers, computer companies, and end users are all ready to declare war on spam, that junk email that clutters your in-boxes. But there are some things to consider when deciding the right course of action to control spam.